| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| aged (adj., n., v.) |
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| The past tense of the verb age, as in During the war, Mother aged perceptibly, is a one-syllable word. The noun is almost always a two-syllable word: The care of the aged is becoming a major social problem. The adjective can have either one or two syllables: my aged grandmother has two syllables; an aged red wine has only one. See SENIOR CITIZEN. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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